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Commodifying bodies /
Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant pa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Thousand Oaks :
Sage Publications,
2002.
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| Colección: | Theory, Culture and Society Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Bodies for sale
- whole or in parts / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
- The other kidney : biopolitics beyond recognition / Lawrence Cohen
- Commodity fetishism in organs trafficking / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
- The alienation of body tissue and the biopolitics of immortalized cell lines / Margaret Lock
- The immigrating body and the body politic : the yemenite children affair and body commodification in Israel / Meira Weiss
- The cremated catholic : the ends of a deceased Guatemalan / Stanley Brandes
- Bodies that don't matter : death and dereliction in Chicago / Eric Klinenberg
- Semen as gift, semen as goods : reproductive workers and the market in altruism / Diane M. Tober
- Excess, scarcity and desire among drug-using sex workers / Maria E. Epele
- Whores, slaves and stallions languages of exploitation and accommodation among professional boxers / Loïc Wacquant.